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  <title>MediaGoblin enters the Knight News Challenge</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2014-03-19 11:00" />
  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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  <a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/mediagoblin-decentralized-social-media-publishing-for-everyone"
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           alt="MediaGoblin on the Knight News Challenge" />
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I'm excited to say that MediaGoblin has
<a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/mediagoblin-decentralized-social-media-publishing-for-everyone">entered into the Knight News Challenge</a>!
For those not familiar, the
<a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/">Knight News Challenge</a>
is an excellent grant giving program centered around free expression
on the net, particularly in areas of citizen journalism.</p>

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We think we couldn't be a more perfect fit.  Just read
<a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/brief.html">the description</a>:
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<blockquote>
  This is an open call for ideas. We want to discover projects that
  make the Internet better. We believe that access to information is
  key to vibrant and successful communities, and we want the Internet
  to remain an open, equitable platform for free expression, commerce
  and learning. We want an Internet that fuels innovation through the
  creation and sharing of ideas.
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This is <i>exactly</i> the area that we're working on in MediaGoblin, so
we're super thrilled to be applying.  If we got this grant, it could
really change things for MediaGoblin and allow us to very quickly and
efficiently bring the project to the next level and achieve our dream
of beautiful, decentralized, user-freedom-oriented media publishing on
the internet to life.
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So <a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/mediagoblin-decentralized-social-media-publishing-for-everyone">check out our application</a>!
We are totally open to constructive comments and feedback on that
page.  And if you're as excited as we are, feel free to give us some
applause!
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<p><i>
  <b>PS:</b>
  We're well aware of the YouTube upload irony.  It seems to be a required part of
  the campaign submission if you want to have a video.  Shows just how
  badly getting MediaGoblin out there is needed!
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<p><i>
  <b>PPS:</b>
  Don't forget that we're also running
  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">a campaign</a>... If you haven't
  supported the campaign yet already, that's also a great way to help!
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